Case Study Mavim
Mavim is a global software solution provider specialized in business transformation and process management.
Customer story
Software company Mavim gives its application a second life with Windows Containers
Software company Mavim has been a partner and customer of Intercept for many years. Since 1990, Mavim has been developing and delivering software that enables organisations to adapt to continuously changing circumstances quickly. As many software companies experience, modernising existing, successful, and widely used solutions is challenging.
The latest generation of software is, of course, cloud-native, but products that are already further along in the product lifecycle deserve a more innovative way than rewriting to take advantage of the latest cloud solutions. By containerising (using Docker) the existing software and deploying Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) for scalable management of customer environments, Mavim accelerated and improved its current Azure Web App environment, a Windows-based .NET solution.
Second lifecycle for a .NET Framework Windows app with AKS
The goal was to give the existing app a boost. By converting the .NET-based Windows web app from Mavim to a Docker container hosted on AKS. Through the smart use of DevOps pipelines and Azure Functions, the entire deployment and management process was automated. In this way, we gave the app a serious boost without partially rewriting the app to .NET Core (5).
The results: the app is now 80% faster at the same cost, and availability is much better. Thus, Mavim hosts smarter, and they can continue with their existing app.
"There are millions of Windows and Linux-based applications that can't simply be ported to managed code. In that case, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a solution,
Richard Hooper, Azure Principal Architect and MVP
The opportunities for transforming existing applications with AKS are endless, as are those for new apps.
Because containers are widely used across Windows and Linux, many companies can make use of them. Moreover, AKS is constantly evolving, so new features are added regularly.
"A few years ago, we jointly embarked on a path to hyper-scale in the Azure Cloud with Intercept. Together, we have reached a point where our customers collaborate more and more internationally on our platform. Intercept's AKS solution has allowed us to roll out upgrades and spin up Azure regions more easily in addition to performance improvements."
COO Bram Hirsch
Benefits of AKS
AKS allows you to store each service of your organisation in a separate container. This makes your system stable and flexible. More benefits of AKS are:
- Speed: it is possible to develop and implement new components and functions faster. You can also react more quickly to developed innovations.
- Scalability is achieved by preferring decoupled architectures. Each component is separated from other components by defined APIs and service load balancers in a decoupled architecture.
- Hybrid Cloud: by building your infrastructure on Kubernetes, you ensure that the effort you put into building, deploying, and managing your application is easily portable to other environments.
- Efficiency Kubernetes aggregates containers into Pods. Pods can be assigned properties such as storage, networking, and scheduling. Kubernetes then looks at the available memory and processor usage of each node and chooses the best distribution for you. This ensures that the nodes of the Kubernetes cluster are used optimally.
Want to start with AKS?
Enthusiastic about the possibilities of modernising your app with AKS? Based on an intake, Intercept can see where your AKS needs lie. We help you through the whole lifecycle, from transformation to automation to monitoring.
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